Thoughts on Dirty-30 and Scotty Pods

It's too early to call the Dirty-30 departure a loss but if anything, the best case scenario for the Chicago White Sox is that they can consider the Nick Swisher for New York Yankees prospects trade a wash for both.

Otherwise, things aren't looking too good so far.

First off, Swisher is leading the league in just about every category. He even pitched last night.

Even worse, or perhaps more importantly, we really didn't get jack in return for him. Pitcher Jeff Marquez has looked terrible in his brief stint in the minors thus far and Wilson Betemit may become a nice option off the bench.

To makes matters ever more terrible, we gave up a glutton of prospects to get Dirty-30 in the first place. Thankfully, none have panned out as potential stars quite yet.

It also remains to be seen if the Swish can keep this up. He's never been more than a .250's hitter so clearly a breakout season at this point at these numbers is difficult to fathom. There's not even a chance he continues playing first base when Mark Teixera returns.

He's never really been a center fielder, either, so don't expect him to assume that position.

But while he hits like this, he's a pleasure to be around. But when Tex comes back, we'll see how happy go luck he really is.

Moving onto the next topic of Scott Podsednik returning to the White Sox via a minor league deal when Dewayne Wise went down with a shoulder injury.

Sure, he probably isn't the answer in center and frankly, no one is really available who could be that answer (cept maybe Juan Pierre? nevermind....). But he certainly has to be slightly better than Jerry Owens, who has boofed every opportunity to lock down the job with little competition.

It'll be an interesting couple of weeks for both players to see who comes out on top.